I just got back from a ten-day trip to Sierra Leone, West Africa. It has been about 7 years since I last went, and I used to go 2 or 3 times a year for 17 years. I stopped because of my health, but I did very well on this trip and plan to go back again in February to teach a seminar to the pastors on church growth, majoring on prayer, teaching leadership, and teaching personal evangelism to those in their churches. God has given me some new big goals in my life, and I am very excited to get after them. I have been having a very fulfilling and rewarding time preaching at Jefferson Evangelical Church over the last couple of years, and now, with this ministry added to my life, I feel like I could live to be 100. It is amazing the power that goals, dreams, and purpose have in our lives, giving us energy and passion, even for old guys like me. There are so many opportunities all around us to get involved in something that has purpose and blesses other people.